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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple, the Salisburys, who ran their own farm in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. She had no idea that she was adopted until she found her birth certificate at the age of 17. It was only when she was well into middle age that she attempted to track down her biological parents and discovered...

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Max (James) Maxted

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In 1919, he is a young war veteran and famed as a fighter pilot. He wants to start a school for pilots, but when his influential father dies in a strange accident, the handsome and charismatic James ‘Max’ Maxted is obliged to investigate the case – which he succeeds in doing. After which, author Robert Goddard lets him be a double agent in a couple of novels, in which he battles with the German ma...

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